of Time series; The Dark Tower series; The Name of the Wind ;
HarryPotter series; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series;
The Lord of the Rings series; Southern Vampire Mysteries series;
HarryPotter and the Methods of Rationality aka HPMOR , anything by
Dean Koontz , Stephen King , John

Fiction:* The HarryPotter series by J.K. Rowling* HarryPotter and the Methods of
Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky (yes, a fanfic - and seriously one
of the best books I've ever read)* The Black Jewels trilogy by Anne
Bishop* The His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman (but the
ending upset

might be mildly embarrassing:
one of my favorite books is a HarryPotter fanfic (I think the
original book series is actually pretty mediocre, though). The
fanfic in question is HarryPotter and the Methods of Rationality
(by Eliezer Yudkowsky, singularitarian scientist of "Less Wrong"
fame), and it